Odessey And Oracle (Revisited): The 40th Anniversary Concert - Live At The Shepherd's Bush Empire, London, 2008
by The Zombies
(Live album)
Year: 2009
Release date: 2009-06-30
Overall rank: 25,972nd
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The Zombies bestography
Odessey And Oracle (Revisited): The 40th Anniversary Concert - Live At The Shepherd's Bush Empire, London, 2008 is ranked 6th best out of 21 albums by The Zombies on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by The Zombies is Odessey And Oracle which is ranked number 88 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 13,675.
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The tracks on this album have an average rating of 77 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
Odessey And Oracle (Revisited): The 40th Anniversary Concert - Live At The Shepherd's Bush Empire, London, 2008 rankings
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 |  Brad1770 | Favourite Live Albums | 13/48 | - |
| 2024 | iancrockert141 | Top 97 Music Albums of the 2000s | 67/97 | 6 |
| 2022 | Rovers | Top 25 Music Albums of 2008 | 13/25 | - |
| 2019 |  sanzolden | Top 40 Greatest Music Albums | 26/40 | 11 |
| 2018 |  bobbyb5 | Best British Invasion Artists and Songs | 14/50 | - |
| 2016 | iancrockert141 | Top 22 Music Albums of 2008 | 14/22 | - |
| 2013 | subtleman22 | Top 38 Music Albums of the 2000s | 4/38 | 18 |
| 2013 | nas062080 | Top British Albums of All-Time | 79/100 | - |
| 2012 | subtleman22 | Top 3 Music Albums of 2008 | 1/3 | - |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 9 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 35 | |||
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| 02/26/2022 08:25 | DetectiveI | 674 | 95/100 | |
| 04/25/2020 21:56 | matterhornrider | 4,946 | 81/100 | |
| 10/31/2019 10:58 | Brad1770 | 1,617 | 66/100 | |
| 04/24/2019 20:00 | Pluto11 | 12,089 | 72/100 | |
| 11/29/2016 22:32 | rkm | 3,247 | 73/100 |
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Brad1770 10/31/2019 11:03 | #244309
Colin Blunstone sounds great , the band is tight and the inclusion of Zombies classics on top of one of the best albums ever makes this an absolutely essential live album
I don’t usually regard live albums this highly, but this is a terrific disc, especially the Odessey and Oracle half, which reunites one of my favorite bands performing one of my favorite albums 40 years later. They do an amazing job of reproducing all the nuances of the original record and, while it rarely strays from the script into improv, you don’t really want it to. Oracle was close to a perfect record and it would seem like heresy to tamper with it too much. “Hung Up on a Dream” and “Changes” are particular highlights, and the vintage church organ accompanying Chris White’s fragile voice makes “Butcher’s Tale” especially touching. Very moving to see and hear these guys playing together—and playing well—after all these years. If you like the album, pick up the DVD. The four surviving members aren’t currently playing together—only Rod Argent and Colin Blunstone—so this might be your only chance to see them. On songs 15-23, Argent and Blunstone use a different backing band similar to the one they’re presently touring with; White and drummer Hugh Grundy sit this part out. The sound is faithful to the Zombies, but the song choices could have been better. I would have preferred to hear Zombies originals like “Just Out of Reach,” “Smokey Day,” and especially “Indication.” But perhaps the point was to delineate the difference between the two bands and concentrate more on later solo material and covers. The Oracle songs make it a great record nonetheless.
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